Repco Australia Superlastcar Championship: Late Race Suspension failure leaves Jackson Walls last at Taupo

Friday, 10 April 2026

Late Race Suspension failure leaves Jackson Walls last at Taupo

Credit: Supercars

Jackson Walls (#11 Objective Ford) would finish last for the 2nd time in his career. The finish would come because of suspension failure after 50 of the race’s 60 laps. The finish came in Walls’ 9th start.

Jackson Walls came out of nowhere in 2018, jumping up to Formula 4. He would ascend the Formulas until he switched to the Toyota Racing Series in 2019. He won 1 race there, in 2020 at Pukekohe. Walls moved to Super 2 and Porsche in 2025, and SCT Logistics Racing promoted him to the main game in 2026 when they switched teams. He was 23rd in Practice 1. Then slipped to 24th in both Practice 2 and Qualifying.

Jackson Walls (#11 Objective Ford) started the race last. Macauley Jones (#96 John West Logistics/Coregas Toyota) dropped to last by the end of Lap 1. Walls would fall back to last on Lap 5.

Jobs Stewart (#9 Erebus Chevrolet) started drifting backwards from Lap 6. He fell behind Jones on Lap 11 and dropped to last on Lap 12.

The first round of pit stops started on Lap 15, with David Reynolds (#20 Snowy River Caravans Chevrolet). Last place would cycle into Declan Fraser (#777 Isuzu/Nulon Chevrolet) on Lap 17. Then back to Jobe Stewart (#9 Erebus Chevrolet) on lap 21.

Stewart would hold last until the start of the second round of pit stops on Lap 34. Cameron Hill (#14 Electro-Voice Chevrolet) would pit and drop to last.

Cooper Murray (#99 Total Energies Chevrolet) would pit to last next, followed by Rylan Grey (#38 Sell V-Power Ford).

Jobe Stewart (#9 Erebus Chevrolet) was next to fall to last.

Then Jackson Walls (#11 Objective Ford) fell to last during a pit stop, followed by a Lap 50 retirement with suspension failure.

Rounding out the bottom five was Declan Fraser (#777 Isuzu/Nulon Chevrolet). Jobe Stewart (#9 Erebus Chevrolet). Rylan Gray (#38 Shell V-Power Ford) and Cooper Murray (#99 Total Energies Chevrolet).

The Bottom Five

Jackson Walls	50 Laps	Suspension
Declan Fraser	59 Laps	Running
Jobe Stewart	60 Laps	Running
Rylan Gray	60 Laps	Running
Cooper Murray	60 Laps	Running

Driver’s Championship

Pos	Driver	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Cooper Murray	2	4	6
2	Jackson Walls	2	3	3
3	Jobe Stewart	1	5	6
4	Aaron Cameron	1	1	3
5	Matt Payne	1	1	2
6	Chaz Mostert	1	1	1
6T	James Golding	1	1	1
8	Macauley Jones	0	3	4
9	Kai Allen	0	2	2
10	Declan Fraser	0	1	2
11T	Andre Heimgartner	0	1	1
11T	Thomas Randle	0	1	1
11T	Broc Feeney	0	1	1
11T	Zach Bates	0	1	1
15	Rylan Gray	0	0	3
16T	Will Brown	0	0	2
16T	Ryan Wood	0	0	2
18	Jayden Ojeda	0	0	1

Team’s Championship

Pos	Driver	#	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Erebus Motorsports	2	3/2	9/2	12/2
2	Blanchard Racing Team	2	2/2	3/2	5/2
3	Overdrive/RBR Racing	2	2/2	3/2	3/2
4	Grove Racing	2	1/2	3/2	3/2
5	Walkinshaw Andretti United	2	1/2	1/2	2/2
6	Brad Jones Racing	3	1/3	3/3	5/3
7T	Premair Racing	2	0	3/2	4/2
7T	Red Bull Racing	2	0	1/2	3/2
9T	Tickford Racing	2	0	1/2	2/2
9T	Matt Stone Racing	2	0	1/2	1/2
11	Dick Johnson Racing	2	0	0	3/2

Manufacturer’s Championship

Pos	Manufacturer	#	Last	Bottom 3	Bottom 5
1	Chevrolet	8	4/8	16/8	22/8
2	Ford	11	4/11	9/11	16/11
3	Toyota	5	1/5	3/5	5/5

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How Juniorgeneric defines a Last-Place finisher

Australian V8 LASTCAR'S Official Definition of a "Last-Place Finisher" (LPF)

For the purposes of the Australian V8 LASTCAR championship rankings and statistics, a "Last-Place Finisher" (LPF) is a driver(s) who, after qualifying for a V8 Supercars Championship Points-Paying race, the result must be confirmed from official sources, or unofficial sources failing that. Only one driver (or two in a endurance race) can be classified as the LPF for that race.

Meeting those requirements, the LPF can be any driver classified as such for any reason, including, but not limited to.
1) A "did not start" although it should be noted that there is a difference between my definition of "did not start" and Brock Beard's definition of "Did not Start".
For example, in Bathurst 2015 Chazz Mostert and Cameron Waters' #6 Pepsi Max Ford had a huge accident during practice that injured Mostert and all but wrote off the car. Car #6 was withdrawn, and therefore I don't count Mostert and Waters as finishing last. Under Brock Beard's definition, however, Mostert and Waters would have finished last instead of David Wall and Chris Pither.
2) An entrant who encounters an event once the race has started which prevents the driver(s) from finishing ahead of any other qualified entrants, including both DNFs and drivers who finish under power but laps down*

*Only when all the cars in the race are running ahead of the LPF

3) A decision to “start and park” the driver’s entry (Extremely rare in V8 Supercars)
(4) a disqualification handed down by V8 Supercars and/or track officials that subsequently classifies the driver(s) in the final position behind the unofficial LPF.

Australian V8 LASTCAR shall not consider the LPF as anything else, including but not limited too
1) Any DNQ's
2) Any driver's who's car withdrew before the race start.
3)The lowest-ranked driver who finishes the race under power (unless all cars finished under power, actually quite common in V8 Supercars)
4) A driver(s) who finished last initially, however post-race disqualifications usurped the spot.
5) A driver(s) who may be catagorised as finishing last for exhibition events (I may bring these back at some point in the near future, I need more accurate numbers for the events before I start them up again)
6) Anything in non-V8 Supercar Main game (again, insufficent historical data)
7) A driver who was running last when the checkered flag fell, however because they greeted the checkered flag but a drive who was in front of them at the end of the race, however was not running at the end of the race. In that instance the driver who doesn't finish the race will fall behind the driver whom is still running at the end of the race.

In the rare event where official results or a preponderance of unofficial results are later updated with more accurate information about who was the LPF for that event, Australian V8 LASTCAR rankings and statistics shall be updated to reflect that change.